{"id":4220,"date":"2019-09-30T15:59:29","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T15:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/news\/specialcollections\/?p=4220"},"modified":"2020-10-23T12:22:39","modified_gmt":"2020-10-23T12:22:39","slug":"special-collections-talk-singing-the-body-electric-opera-democracy-and-voice-in-the-poetry-of-walt-whitman-on-october-3-2019-1200pm-100pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/2019\/09\/30\/special-collections-talk-singing-the-body-electric-opera-democracy-and-voice-in-the-poetry-of-walt-whitman-on-october-3-2019-1200pm-100pm\/","title":{"rendered":"Special Collections Talk: \u201cSinging the Body Electric: Opera, Democracy, and Voice in the Poetry of Walt Whitman\u201d on October 3, 2019, 12:00pm-1:00pm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The University Libraries\u2019 Special Collections will host a talk by Dr. Robert P. Wilson, adjunct lecturer of English, on \u201cSinging the Body Electric: Opera, Democracy, and Voice in the Poetry of Walt Whitman.\u201d at noon Thursday, October 3, LN-2320, Bernard F. Hupp\u00e9 Reading Room. In his later years, Walt Whitman suggested that a &#8220;philosopher musician&#8221; reading\u00a0<em>Leaves of Grass<\/em>\u00a0could not help but hear the echoes of the poet&#8217;s many enraptured encounters with music,\u00a0especially opera. &#8220;Singing the Body Electric&#8221; amplifies this influence by identifying Whitman&#8217;s notion of &#8220;vocalism&#8221; &#8212; the divine power of a body to sound its speech, its song, and its &#8220;barbaric\u00a0yawp&#8221; &#8212; as the essence of poetic, musical, and democratic performance.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4221\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4221\" style=\"width: 528px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4221 \" src=\"https:\/\/128.226.136.91\/specialcollections\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/09\/I-Sing-the-Body-Electric_Margaret-Cook_resized.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"528\" height=\"704\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/09\/I-Sing-the-Body-Electric_Margaret-Cook_resized.jpg 817w, https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/09\/I-Sing-the-Body-Electric_Margaret-Cook_resized-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/09\/I-Sing-the-Body-Electric_Margaret-Cook_resized-768x1025.jpg 768w, https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/09\/I-Sing-the-Body-Electric_Margaret-Cook_resized-450x600.jpg 450w, https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/09\/I-Sing-the-Body-Electric_Margaret-Cook_resized-780x1041.jpg 780w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 528px) 100vw, 528px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4221\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Illustration by Margaret C. Cook. In &#8220;Poems from Leaves of Grass.&#8221; London: J.M. Dent &amp; New York: E.P. Dutton, 1913<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A brief tour of the exhibit <a href=\"http:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/news\/specialcollections\/2019\/05\/29\/leaves-of-grass-walt-whitmans-masterwork-on-exhibit-beginning-may-31st\/\">\u201cLeaves of Grass: Walt Whitman\u2019s Masterwork\u201d<\/a> and a viewing of the first edition will follow the talk.\u00a0 All are welcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University Libraries\u2019 Special Collections will host a talk by Dr. Robert P. Wilson, adjunct lecturer of English, on \u201cSinging the Body Electric: Opera, Democracy, and Voice in the Poetry of Walt Whitman.\u201d at noon Thursday, October 3, LN-2320, Bernard F. Hupp\u00e9 Reading Room. 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